The Labor enquirer., 1887-05-21
UNION.
Announcement A No. ii.

This week we have the pleasure OF an
nouncing the consolidation of the LABOR
OnoASizER of Kansas City, NO., with the
LABOR ENQUIRER Of Denver, Colorado. In
fulfllment Of the promise in announce
ment No. I" in the last issue of the ORGAN.
rzEn. we issue this announcement No. III.
The subscribers to the ORGANIZER have
reason to congratulate themselves upon
being able to receive, in the place of the
small sheet for which they subscribed, the
LABOR ENQUIRER, journal which for the
past five years has stood pre-eminently
head and shoulders above all, as the best
labor paper in the United States. Its edi'
torial management is in the hands of one
TO whose untiring efforts, as much as to
any one man alive, can be attributed the
fundamental issues recently incorporated
in the labor movement of America.
We have no apology to make for chang
ing our field Of labor and uniting our pat
ronage and our efforts in furthering the
strength and usefulness of such an organ
as the LABOR EsQuIRER, managed by such
man "a Burnette G.. Haskell-one of the
real prophets Of the coming era.
And now we ask the friends and patrons
of the late ORGANIZER TO continue to work
zealously for the consolidated papers in
the future as you have for the individual
one in the past. .
The ORGANIZER was only published un-
der its late management about eight
months, yet in that time its friends so ap.
preciated its bold, outspoken policy and
advocacy of the principles of Scientific
collectiveism, that they spread its circula-
tion from sea to sea, nearly every state
and territory in the Union being its battle
ground. We again earnestly urge our
friends MOTTO abate their missionary work
Of spreading the weekly white-winged
messengers Of light. Push the circula-
ton of the consolidated papers. The En-.
oUrRER and ORGANIZER have both advocat-
ed the same principles. If you like the
one you cannot help liking the other. The
ENQUIRER has during its years of agitation
and education, by its advocacy of funda-
mental issues, accomplished a work that
II will take the eternal ages to unfold
The ORGANIZER, too, has accomplished a
great work. Though younger, and smaller
and more limited in its field of action
and though ow ceasing publication, yet il
he's wrought we'll IN hitherto unoccupied
field, in place considered well nigh i'm.
pervious to radical ideas. Kansas City
the home Of speculation, Mammon's head.
quarters for the west Mississippi valley
has boen raided, and the cross of the new
crusade firmly planted in its midst The
accursed radicals" are the recognized
leaders of the reform movement and the
banner Of one blood, of universal frater.
ity peace on earth and good will towards
men is heralded as the tittest emblem of
that crusade.
Nine months ago no greater abuse could
be heaped ON man than to call him So.
cialist The colossal ignorance of the
principles of that PHILOSOPHY of the gol.
den rule -socialism-was the profound,
est thing in Missouri. Organized labor
as whole, looked upon it with horror
excclled only by the capitalistic class. A
few Germans held the nucleus of n Social.
istic organization, but il was hard for
them to reach the American ear and heart
To-day no man in labor meeting dare
stand up and object seriously to the phil.
osophy of socialism, though of course
there are towards who say we can't get it,
and bigots who don't want it. The Cen.
tral Labor Union, nm organization of So.
cialistic principles, was organized by these
radicals as'was also every ward club in
the city before the late election. Even
the very ultra-conservatives in arraigning
Anarchy, Communism, etc. are noticeably
cautious not TO use the word Socialism
among the terms the, are condemning
The wonderful strides and conquests OF
this philosophy of fraternity" more than
rcpays for the heartaches and headaches,
and even physical sacrifices incident to
this missionary work under the cross of
the new crusade.
We realize more and more ut this time.
and would recall to every comrade in this
glorious cause of freedom, that he, too,
may more fully realize, the truth of those
beautiful aud encouraging words of Com.
rade Haskell, taken from y recent private
letter:
Never grow faint.hearted, for there is
larger promise of dawn painted in the
skies than ever before and it needs only
push. PUSH. PUSH. to swing wide open the
gates of the morning"
This "dawning" is being generally hailed